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Show AXIS NATIONS DEGRADE WOMEN In a recent address, Joseph C. Grew, former ambassador am-bassador to Japan, called attention to the status of women in enemy countries. The German women of today, he said, are held by public opinion, by official utterance and by law to be inferior creatures. Children are taken tak-en from their mothers by the Nazi party machine ma-chine and taught to be immoral, fanatical ruffians, ruf-fians, so that the boys might be the infantry of today and the girls the mothers of the cannon fodder of 1970. Continuing, Ambassador Grew said the German women are privileged in comparison with the women of conquered countries under the heels of German invaders. in-vaders. The women of Poland, Greece and other conquered con-quered countries, find terror, pain, unspeakable degradation de-gradation and often death at the hands of the possessors pos-sessors of their countries. In Japan, Mr. Grew pointed out, women never have achieved freedom. Japanese men always al-ways have had contempt for women, so that their soldiers have made "Japanese a synonym for murder, torture and rape. "No other civilized people sells its young girls to panderers with such openness. No other civilized people makes the mother the slave of her husband and the servant of her own sons." The facts mentioned by the ambassador are nasty and disgusting. Nevertheless, they bear repeating in order that women in this country and in other free lands may understand the meaning of this war. In the face of such information, it is rather difficult to understand un-derstand how any intelligent, cultured woman can fail to understand the necessity of using force to put down the aggression of such nations. |